John 17:25

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Father of righteousness, I have knowledge of you, though the world has not; and to these it is clear that you sent me;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Πάτερ δίκαιε, καὶ ὁ κόσμος σε οὐκ ἔγνω: ἐγὼ δέ σε ἔγνων, καὶ οὗτοι ἔγνωσαν ὅτι σύ με ἀπέστειλας.

Transliteration

Pater dikaie, and the kosmos you not egnō: egō de you egnōn, and these egnōsan that you me apesteilas.

Grammar Details

• *Pater*: vocative, masculine, singular - Father
• *dikaie*: vocative, masculine, singular - righteous
• *kosmos*: nominative, masculine, singular - world
• *egnō*: aorist, active, indicative, 3rd person singular - knew
• *egō*: nominative, singular, personal pronoun - I
• *de*: conjunction - but/and/now
• *egnōn*: aorist, active, indicative, 1st person singular - I knew
• *egnōsan*: aorist, active, indicative, 3rd person plural - they knew
• *apesteilas*: aorist, active, indicative, 2nd person singular - you sent

Word Meanings

• *Pater dikaie*: Righteous Father
• *kosmos*: world/universe/ordered system
• *egnō*: knew/recognized/understood
• *egō*: I/myself
• *de*: but/and/moreover
• *egnōn*: knew/recognized/understood
• *egnōsan*: knew/recognized/understood
• *apesteilas*: sent/commissioned/dispatched

Referenced Verses

• John 7:29 : 29 I have knowledge of him because I came from him and he sent me.
• John 15:21 : 21 They will do all this to you because of my name--because they have no knowledge of him who sent me.
• John 17:8 : 8 Because I have given them the words which you gave to me; and they have taken them to heart, and have certain knowledge that I came from you, and they have faith that you sent me.
• John 17:11 : 11 And now I will be no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I come to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name which you have given to me, so that they may be one even as we are one.
• John 16:3 : 3 They will do these things to you because they have not had knowledge of the Father or of me.
• John 16:27 : 27 For the Father himself gives his love to you, because you have given your love to me and have had faith that I came from God.
• John 8:55 : 55 You have no knowledge of him, but I have knowledge of him; and if I said I have no knowledge of him I would be talking falsely like you: but I have full knowledge of him, and I keep his word.
• John 10:15 : 15 Even as the Father has knowledge of me and I of the Father; and I am giving my life for the sheep.
• John 8:19 : 19 Then they said to him, Where is your Father? Jesus said in answer, You have no knowledge of me or of my Father: if you had knowledge of me you would have knowledge of my Father.
• John 16:30 : 30 Now we are certain that you have knowledge of all things and have no need for anyone to put questions to you: through this we have faith that you came from God.
• John 17:3 : 3 And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only true God, and of him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ.
• Isa 45:21 : 21 Give the word, put forward your cause, let us have a discussion together: who has given news of this in the past? who made it clear in early times? did not I, the Lord? and there is no God but me; a true God and a saviour; there is no other.
• Matt 11:27 : 27 All things have been given to me by my Father; and no one has knowledge of the Son, but the Father; and no one has knowledge of the Father, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will make it clear.
• Matt 16:16 : 16 And Simon Peter made answer and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
• Luke 10:22 : 22 All things have been given to me by my Father: and no one has knowledge of the Son, but only the Father: and of the Father, but only the Son, and he to whom the Son will make it clear.
• John 1:18 : 18 No man has seen God at any time; the only Son, who is on the breast of the Father, he has made clear what God is.
• John 3:17 : 17 God did not send his Son into the world to be judge of the world; he sent him so that the world might have salvation through him.
• John 5:19-20 : 19 So Jesus made answer and said, Truly I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything himself; he is able to do only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does the Son does it in the same way. 20 For the Father has love for the Son and lets him see everything which he does: and he will let him see greater works than these so that you may be full of wonder.
• John 6:19 : 19 After they had gone three or four miles they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near to the boat; and they had great fear.
• John 17:18 : 18 Even as you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
• John 17:21 : 21 May they all be one! Even as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, so let them be in us, so that all men may come to have faith that you sent me.
• John 17:23 : 23 I in them, and you in me, so that they may be made completely one, and so that it may become clear to all men that you have sent me and that they are loved by you as I am loved by you.
• Acts 17:23 : 23 For when I came by, I was looking at the things to which you give worship, and I saw an altar with this writing on it, TO THE GOD OF WHOM THERE IS NO KNOWLEDGE. Now, what you, without knowledge, give worship to, I make clear to you.
• Acts 26:18 : 18 To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.
• Rom 1:28 : 28 And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;
• Rom 3:11 : 11 Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;
• Rom 3:26 : 26 And to make clear his righteousness now, so that he might himself be upright, and give righteousness to him who has faith in Jesus.
• 1 Cor 1:21 : 21 For because, by the purpose of God, the world, with all its wisdom, had not the knowledge of God, it was God's pleasure, by so foolish a thing as preaching, to give salvation to those who had faith in him.
• 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.
• 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.
• Gal 4:8-9 : 8 But at that time, having no knowledge of God, you were servants to those who by right are no gods: 9 But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?
• 2 Thess 1:8 : 8 To give punishment to those who have no knowledge of God, and to those who do not give ear to the good news of our Lord Jesus:
• Heb 8:11 : 11 And there will be no need for every man to be teaching his brother, or his neighbour, saying, This is the knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, great and small.
• 1 John 1:9 : 9 If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.
• 1 John 5:19-20 : 19 We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One. 20 And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
• Rev 13:8 : 8 And all who are on the earth will give him worship, everyone whose name has not been from the first in the book of life of the Lamb who was put to death.